Sources have confirmed that  Ella Wood, ES ’15, will contend for current Alder Douglas Hausladen’s Ward 7 seat. Located in downtown, Ward 7 surrounds much of Ward 1, or the “Yale Ward,” which is currently represented by incumbent Sarah Eidelson, JE ’12.

At this point, it is not clear if Wood has filed enough signatures in time to make the Ward 7 Democratic primary ballot in September, or if she will just challenge in November. More on this to come.

Hausladen, a Democrat, is an outspoken critic of the current Board and its union ties and a founder of a new slate of six Democratic politicians bent on targeting New Haven’s new  labor “machine.”

Wood is the Chair of the Independent Party of the Yale Political Union.

More information to come, but you heard it here first!